Not even slightly concerned that we use cloth for our little one. Firstly because you use a sprayer to get off the vast majority, and then a give them a rinse out before the nappy bin. But also because it’s just shit. Not nuclear waste.

We used terry nappies for our first baby but it’s just SO much work, soaking, rinsing,washing, drying and ironing. You have the environmental impact of putting a bucket of antiseptic rinse down the system every day. You have the environmental impact if doing so much washing and drying that you wear out a machine in 18 months. People just don’t do all this by hand as they did in the 1950s.

Biodegradable disposables must be no worse at the least, esoecislly the unbleached ones.

That is what’s known as a strawman, since defecating in the washer is not the same thing. Cloth diapers are usually washed separately for a reason, as feces can stain the cloth and you don’t want stains on your other clothes. Or, at the very least, you pre-rinse them to get the majority of the material flushed out, first.

And that’s not addressing the sheer quantity difference between a bit of fecal matter on the diapers and the mass quantity that just got dumped (pun intended) in the washer. 😀

Cloth diapers are AWESOME. They’re not that much extra work, and if you have a front-loading washer with a sanitize cycle, they’re even easier to deal with.

Our old washer died a few months after our first kid was born. A new washer, plus 25 insert diapers, STILL hasn’t come close to the cost of all the disposables we could’ve been buying. Especially when you factor in we use the same diapers for the second kid. Literally thousands of dollars in savings.

Don’t worry about poop; you’ll deal with even more of it when you start potty training. 😉